The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-13
MUSCULAR BROKERS.
Some of Them are Surprisingly Prof.
Gent With the Gloves"

cient With the gloves"
New York, Nov. 12.-Extremes proven
bially meet, and the fact is exemplfied
anew in the love of boxing which unites in
sort of fellowship the gentlemanly broker
and the professional "bruiser." Many Of
the brokers of Wall street and elsewhere in
New York are surprisingly proficient with
the gloves. They take lessons from PRO
| feSsorsn and from awkwar@ novices who put
| forward their light duke as guard, tEen
| become dangerous antagonists who have
| learned to put up their left as guard and
| TO strike blows with their right which sug-
gest those of Roman batteriug ram Some
| of them used TO take lessons in tisticuffs in
their elegant Wall street offices from broken
noSed and broken-down ex-members of the
24-foOt ring at s. a lesson, and in time they
became as expert and dangerous as Chester
S Lord and his staff of Sun reporters who
scientifically pommel each other at about
2 80 o'clock every morning or just after the
paper has gone TO press. Many of the brokers
are members of athletic clubs and they use
the gloves there, 1t is no longer safe for a
bully to attack a well-dressed gentleman, or
even what is termed dude, on the SUPPOSE
ton that he cannot use his hands" Some
of the roughs of the Sixth ward have had
this momentous fact clearly demonstrated.
The champion boxer of the Stock Ex-
change is Albert V. De Goicouria. He is
also one of its handsOmeSt men. He is
Cuban by birth, but was educated in New
York, and is thorough American in tastes
and ideas as well as in q complete mastery
of the language. He is broad-shouldered,
deep-chested and in every respect power
| fully built, of about the medium height and
weighs us pounds He has a long reach
and strikes a blow which even that redoubt-
able bruiser, John L. Sullivan, might feel
III - L.
Prof" Mike Donovan, the instructor in
boxing to the Athletic Club. Mr..
De Goicouria has an arm which
athletes admire and a plaster
cast of il is displayed at the Athletic Club
housa He married the youngest daughter
of the late. William Wall, once Mayor Of
Williamsburg, and millionaire rope man.
uiacturer. He Is an uncle by marriage of
Barry Wall, the exquisite King OF the
Dudes, vino, by the way, is very gentls.
manly and apparently harmless young fell
low. Young Howell Osborn, son of the late
millionaire broker, is considered quite skill
full with the gloves-more so than in specu-
lation, which he has abandoned, receiving
foI tune from his mother on consideration of
so doing The number of Stock Exchange
members who are skillful with the boxing
gloves is too large to mention; many are
members of the New York Athletic Club,
and practice nightly.
The champion of the Produce Exchange
is Herman Oelrichs, OF the wealthy family
of shipping merchants. He OWNS the yacht
HiIdegarde and is member OF the New
York Yacht Club He is about As years of
| age well knit and powerfully built, and
weighs 200 pounds. His admirers say he
strikes blow suggestive of one from a
mules hind limb Walter Mum, a son Of q
| wealthy freight broker, is an opponent chat
| few on the Produce Exchange can success
| fully meet. S. Morris Pryor, the stock
| broker, a cousin of Gen. Roger A. Pryor,
VINO appeared for the Anarchists before the
| United States Supreme Court, used to be
one of the best boxers in the Racquet Club,
| and made the boys there feel the might Of
his puissant arm full many timo and
/ oft, but he is getting too stout now to keep
| up his former reputation. James r, Moore,
| of the Consolidated Exchange, may per-
| haps he considered its champion boxer,
though there are several others who might
| be disposed to dispute that place He is
young and wealthy, and IS associated in oil
| speculation with Joseph Craig, the big oDer-
ator OF Pittsburg. Mr.. Moore is member of
| both the New York and Brooklyn Athletic
| Clubs, and when he puts on the gloves and
faces an antagonist there is decidedly AMI
mated scuffie, with Moore invariably fore
| ing the fighting, and doing up his victim in
| a manner that would have made John c.
/ burner, of the same Exchange, is heavy
hammer thrower and ug-of-war man at
The rope. He weighs 225 pounds. is tall and
| splendidly proportioned, and is considered
the Hercules OF the Exchange.
The champion athlete of the Cotton Ex-
change is James B. Guest. ~ broker, who
sometimes sells 10000 bales OF cotton in a
day. He is interested in all kinds of field
sports is tall. powerfully built and can
give the boys points ia boxing rs well as
other branches of athletic anusements.
| Young Quinn, of the Coffee Exchange,
/ who was murdered some time ago. was one
of the best athletes, being especially pro-
tcient in wrestling. He was, however, also
! good boxer. Quiet and courteous in man
uer, well knit and powerful. he seemed the
last one that would fall a victim to the re
volver of a little desperate who has been
known as criminal for years. James
Blair, Of the same Exchange, took lessons in
boxing from Prof" Wood, aud is now one
! OF it's best boxers. And the list of boxing
brokers, who take 10 athletic sports as re-
I lief from the excitement of speculation,
might he greatly extended.
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